FILE - In this March 19, 2009 file photo, a car speeds past the AIG sign, at AIG's financial products offices in Wilton, Conn. They are the biggest of the big - the Citigroups, the Goldman Sachses, the AIGs and other behemoths of the financial system. The Obama administration doesn't want so many around anymore. AP Photo logo AP Photo 7 months ago

FILE - In this March 19, 2009 file photo, a car speeds past the AIG sign, at AIG's financial products offices in Wilton, Conn. They are the biggest of the big - the Citigroups, the Goldman Sachses, the AIGs and other behemoths of the financial system. The Obama administration doesn't want so many around anymore.

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  1. A construction worker stands at a new building site at Queen Alia Airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Amman, February 9, 2010. Airport International Group (AIG) recently announced that there has been a strong growth in the airport's overall traffic levels. In 2009, passenger traffic reached 4.7 million passengers and aircraft movements closed the year with 57,766 aircrafts - a 12.6 percent increase over the previous year.
  2. A construction worker waves as he stands at a new building site at Queen Alia Airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Amman, February 9, 2010. Airport International Group (AIG) recently announced that there has been a strong growth in the airport's overall traffic levels. In 2009, passenger traffic reached 4.7 million passengers and aircraft movements closed the year with 57,766 aircrafts - a 12.6 percent increase over the previous year.
  3. Construction workers stand on scaffoldings of a new building at Queen Alia Airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Amman, February 9, 2010. Airport International Group (AIG) recently announced that there has been a strong growth in the airport's overall traffic levels. In 2009, passenger traffic reached 4.7 million passengers and aircraft movements closed the year with 57,766 aircrafts - a 12.6 percent increase over the previous year.
  4. Workers unload cargo from an airplane at Queen Alia Airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Amman, February 9, 2010. Airport International Group (AIG) recently announced that there has been a strong growth in the airport's overall traffic levels. In 2009, passenger traffic reached 4.7 million passengers and aircraft movements closed the year with 57,766 aircrafts - a 12.6 percent increase over the previous year.
  5. Construction workers stand at a new building at Queen Alia Airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Amman, February 9, 2010. Airport International Group (AIG) recently announced that there has been a strong growth in the airport's overall traffic levels. In 2009, passenger traffic reached 4.7 million passengers and aircraft movements closed the year with 57,766 aircrafts - a 12.6 percent increase over the previous year.
  6. A construction worker carries a barrel as he works on a new building at Queen Alia Airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Amman, February 9, 2010. Airport International Group (AIG) recently announced that there has been a strong growth in the airport's overall traffic levels. In 2009, passenger traffic reached 4.7 million passengers and aircraft movements closed the year with 57,766 aircrafts - a 12.6 percent increase over the previous year.
  7. Construction workers cut plastic pipes as they work on a new building at Queen Alia Airport, 35 km (22 miles) south of Amman, February 9, 2010. Airport International Group (AIG) recently announced that there has been a strong growth in the airport's overall traffic levels. In 2009, passenger traffic reached 4.7 million passengers and aircraft movements closed the year with 57,766 aircrafts - a 12.6 percent increase over the previous year.
  8. Former United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson appears before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010.
  9. Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Elias Habayeb, former chief financial officer of the AIG Financial Services Group, Stephen Friedman, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Thomas Baxter, executive vice president and general counsel for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, (L-R), are sworn in before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010.
  10. Former United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson appears before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010.
  11. Former United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson appears before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010.
  12. WASHINGTON - JANUARY 27: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Hearing focusing on factors affecting efforts to limit payments to AIG on Capitol Hill January 27, 2010 in Washington, DC. Geithner denied he played a role in withholding information about deals that sent billions of taxpayer dollars from the bailout of American International Group Inc. to big banks.
  13. WASHINGTON - JANUARY 27: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner prepares to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Hearing focusing on factors affecting efforts to limit payments to AIG on Capitol Hill January 27, 2010 in Washington, DC. Geithner denied he played a role in withholding information about deals that sent billions of taxpayer dollars from the bailout of American International Group Inc. to big banks.
  14. WASHINGTON - JANUARY 27: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Hearing focusing on factors affecting efforts to limit payments to AIG on Capitol Hill January 27, 2010 in Washington, DC. Geithner denied he played a role in withholding information about deals that sent billions of taxpayer dollars from the bailout of American International Group Inc. to big banks.
  15. Former United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson appears before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010.
  16. Former United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson appears before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010.

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